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November 7th, 2009
12:00 am qotdrss [Link]	Peter Ustinov http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Peter_Ustinov "It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously." (Leave a comment)
12:00 am qotdrss [Link]	Benjamin Disraeli http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Benjamin_Disraeli "My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me." (Leave a comment)
12:00 am qotdrss [Link]	Bertrand Russell http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Bertrand_Russell "The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection." (Leave a comment)
12:00 am qotdrss [Link]	Paul Fix http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Paul_Fix "The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory." (Leave a comment)
04:14 am asylum_promo [mugetsu] [Link]	Batman, The Joker, Vagrant Story, The Pirates of Dark Water fandom asylums octopon - Pirates of DarkWater fandom asylum. Completed! gotham_gazetteCompleted!</i> vagrant_story - Vagrant Story fandom asylum. WIP; will be deleted unless more interest is shown. And, Please feel free to join commedia; a personal project of mine, aiming to review and analyze comics (and other selected media) that feature DC Comics' The Joker. It is currently a WIP because I am still going through my 500+ hardcopy!issues collection. I do not download torrents/scans. I'd like to point out that currently I have two polls up for debate, as can be seen here explaining two routes the asylum's project can take. IE: spoiler free reviews, spoilerific reviews, and whatnot. =) Otherwise, the FAQ and The Rules are already up. The tags/memory post is still a WIP. I am also open to affiliating with other comic book and/or Batman related asylums, except for RPGs. Current Mood: full (Leave a comment)
03:00 pm snopesdaily [Link]	Free Meals for Veterans http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/nothing/veterans.asp Restaurant chains are offering free meals to U.S. military personnel in conjunction with Veterans Day. (Leave a comment)
November 6th, 2009
11:00 pm pepys_diary [Link]	Tuesday 6 November 1666 http://www.pepysdiary.com/archive/1666/11/06/ Up, and to the office, where all the morning sitting. At noon home to dinner, and after dinner down alone by water to Deptford, reading "Duchesse of Malfy," the play, which is pretty good, and there did some business, and so up again, and all the evening at the office. At night home, and there find Mr. Batelier, who supped with us, and good company he is, and so after supper to bed. (Leave a comment)
12:30 pm irena_candy [Link]	Small Victories Tuesday morning I took Truck to town. It was one of those do-it-now impulses that I am prone to, and I reasoned that 9am on a weekday morning would probably give me the least amount of traffic to contend with. (Not that there's much traffic out here at any time. If I pass three cars on that road it rates as rush hour.) There are some curves on the winding road down into town that I don't even like in the Toyota, since they don't have a shoulder and there is a steep drop on the outside. However, I reminded myself that Truck is only six inches wider than the Toy, and off I went. No problem. I drove to town, turned around in the museum parking lot, and came back--for a total round trip excursion of twelve miles. Now I feel a lot more relaxed about driving the thing. This morning I bagged Chuck's three-piece suits for the trash. He worked for IBM for 17 years and I worked for Xerox for 18. When we moved up here, we both brought along our suits, and I packed my high heels as well. Naturally we never wore any of it, but who was to know? My suits are still in boxes in storage, somewhere, but his suits were hanging in the closet covered with a film of dust. They were beautiful wool suits, and Chuck got them from a Hong Kong clothier who was recommended to him by another IBMer. We called the guy Hong Kong Harry. He came to the Los Angeles area every six months or so and took a motel room. Customers came into have their measurements taken, selected what fabric they wanted, and handed over a check. About a month later some absolutely gorgeous wool suits showed up in the mail. I kept putting off doing anything with the suits, telling myself that I could offer them to the local Little Theatre group, or maybe recycle the cloth. Some women do that; cut their husband's old clothes up into largish squares and sew them together into comforters. I finally faced the fact that I was never going to do either of those things, so away they go. It has only taken me nine months. (Leave a comment)
01:11 pm asylum_promo [bri] [Link]	Asylums for you! On any asylum, you should always read their info first for rules and any regulations. :) (Please note that all asylums listed below have been around for a good while; these are not new.) graphix - A great graphics asylum that offers making and posting of many types of graphics. NOTE: We currently are in need of active makers, please help! ijelite - Another great graphics community that offers icons and all sorts of graphics. christians - A place for Christians and non-Christians alike to discuss the Christian faith, prayer, and problems. NOTE: Need active members; please join us! iconism - An icon only asylum. NOTE: Sister asylum of graphix. hardball - Want to debate? This is the place to do it. Please read rules before posting/commenting. addme - A place to find friends to add! Current Mood: creative (Leave a comment)
02:28 am astrobiofeed [Link]	Think Global, Act Local http://www.astrobio.net/index.php?option=com_retrospection&id=3301&task=detail Recently, Astrobiology Magazine s climate blog, The Hot Zone, spoke with Dr. Anastasia Romanou, Associate Research Scientist at NASA GISS, about the need for precise local measurements of climate phen (Leave a comment)
12:00 am qotdrss [Link]	Randy K. Milholland http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Randy_K._Milholland "The only thing that lasts longer than a friend's love is the stupidity that keeps us from knowing any better." (Leave a comment)
12:00 am qotdrss [Link]	Sam Levenson http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Sam_Levenson "You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself." (Leave a comment)
12:00 am qotdrss [Link]	Otto von Bismarck http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Otto_von_Bismarck "When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it into practice." (Leave a comment)
12:00 am qotdrss [Link]	Lily Tomlin http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Lily_Tomlin "Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world." (Leave a comment)
03:00 pm snopesdaily [Link]	20/20 Revision http://www.snopes.com/politics/medical/stossel.asp Was ABC News' 20/20 co-anchor John Stossel fired for trying to air a piece critical of health care reform? (Leave a comment)
November 5th, 2009
11:00 pm pepys_diary [Link]	Monday 5 November 1666 http://www.pepysdiary.com/archive/1666/11/05/ (A holyday). Lay long; then up, and to the office, where vexed to meet with people come from the fleete at the Nore, where so many ships are laid up and few going abroad, and yet Sir Thomas Allen hath sent up some Lieutenants with warrants to presse men for a few ships to go out this winter, while every day thousands appear here, to our great trouble and affright, before our office and the ticket office, and no Captains able to command one-man aboard. Thence by water to Westminster, and there at the Swan find Sarah is married to a shoemaker yesterday, so I could not see her, but I believe I shall hereafter at good leisure. Thence by coach to my Lady Peterborough, and there spoke with my Lady, who had sent to speak with me. She makes mighty moan of the badness of the times, and her family as to money. My Lord's passionateness for want thereof, and his want of coming in of rents, and no wages from the Duke of York. No money to be had there for wages nor disbursements, and therefore prays my assistance about his pension. I was moved with her story, which she largely and handsomely told me, and promised I would try what I could do in a few days, and so took leave, being willing to keep her Lord fair with me, both for his respect to my Lord Sandwich and for my owne sake hereafter, when I come to pass my accounts. Thence to my Lord Crew's, and there dined, and mightily made of, having not, to my shame, been there in 8 months before. Here my Lord and Sir Thomas Crew, Mr. John, and Dr. Crew, and two strangers. The best family in the world for goodness and sobriety. Here beyond my expectation I met my Lord Hinchingbroke, who is come to towne two days since from Hinchingbroke, and brought his sister and brother Carteret with him, who are at Sir G. Carteret's. After dinner I and Sir Thomas Crew went aside to discourse of public matters, and do find by him that all the country gentlemen are publickly jealous of the courtiers in the Parliament, and that they do doubt every thing that they propose; and that the true reason why the country gentlemen are for a land-tax and against a general excise, is, because they are fearful that if the latter be granted they shall never get it down again; whereas the land-tax will be but for so much; and when the war ceases, there will be no ground got by the Court to keep it up. He do much cry out upon our accounts, and that all that they have had from the King hath been but estimates both from my Lord Treasurer and us, and from all people else, so that the Parliament is weary of it. He says the House would be very glad to get something against Sir G. Carteret, and will not let their inquiries die till they have got something. He do, from what he hath heard at the Committee for examining the burning of the City, conclude it as a thing certain that it was done by plots; it being proved by many witnesses that endeavours were made in several places to encrease the fire, and that both in City and country it was bragged by several Papists that upon such a day or in such a time we should find the hottest weather that ever was in England, and words of plainer sense. But my Lord Crew was discoursing at table how the judges have determined in the case whether the landlords or the tenants (who are, in their leases, all of them generally tied to maintain and uphold their houses) shall bear the losse of the fire; and they say that tenants should against all casualties of fire beginning either in their owne or in their neighbour's; but, where it is done by an enemy, they are not to do it. And this was by an enemy, there having been one convicted and hanged upon this very score. This is an excellent salvo for the tenants, and for which I am glad, because of my father's house. After dinner and this discourse I took coach, and at the same time find my Lord Hinchingbroke and Mr. John Crew and the Doctor going out to see the ruins of the City; so I took the Doctor into my hackney coach (and he is a very fine sober gentleman), and so through the City. But, Lord! what pretty and sober observations he made of the City and its desolation; till anon we come to my house, and there I took them upon Tower Hill to shew them what houses were pulled down there since the fire; and then to my house, where I treated them with good wine of several sorts, and they took it mighty respectfully, and a fine company of gentlemen they are; but above all I was glad to see my Lord Hinchingbroke drink no wine at all. Here I got them to appoint Wednesday come se'nnight to dine here at my house, and so we broke up and all took coach again, and I carried the Doctor to Chancery Lane, and thence I to White Hall, where I staid walking up and down till night, and then got almost into the play house, having much mind to go and see the play at Court this night; but fearing how I should get home, because of the bonefires and the lateness of the night to get a coach, I did not stay; but having this evening seen my Lady Jemimah, who is come to towne, and looks very well and fat, and heard how Mr. John Pickering is to be married this week, and to a fortune with 5000l., and seen a rich necklace of pearle and two pendants of dyamonds, which Sir G. Carteret hath presented her with since her coming to towne, I home by coach, but met not one bonefire through the whole town in going round by the wall, which is strange, and speaks the melancholy disposition of the City at present, while never more was said of, and feared of, and done against the Papists than just at this time. Home, and there find my wife and her people at cards, and I to my chamber, and there late, and so to supper and to bed. (Leave a comment)
02:28 am astrobiofeed [Link]	Starring Intelligent Aliens http://www.astrobio.net/index.php?option=com_exclusive&id=3300&task=detail The most probable place to find intelligent life in the galaxy is around stars very similar to our sun, a new study has found. (Leave a comment)
02:28 am astrobiofeed [Link]	Building Planet Earth http://www.astrobio.net/index.php?option=com_exclusive&id=3288&task=detail A new study shows how rocky planets are formed from the manic swirl of gas and dust that surround a young star, and determines what chemical building blocks are used to construct the planets. Unders (Leave a comment)
12:00 am qotdrss [Link]	George Bernard Shaw http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/George_Bernard_Shaw "Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability." (Leave a comment)
12:00 am qotdrss [Link]	Carl Sagan http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Carl_Sagan "It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to fifty words used in correct context -- no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese." (Leave a comment)
12:00 am qotdrss [Link]	Segal's Law http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Segal%27s_Law "A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure." (Leave a comment)
12:00 am qotdrss [Link]	Grabel's Law http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Grabel%27s_Law "2 is not equal to 3, not even for large values of 2." (Leave a comment)
03:00 pm snopesdaily [Link]	Foxumentary http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/foxnews.asp What happened to the FOX News documentary on Barack Obama? (Leave a comment)
November 4th, 2009
04:11 pm asylum_promo [heritagelakemod] [Link]	( HERITAGE LAKE LODGE ) (Leave a comment)
06:43 pm slashfairy [Link]	howardzinn.org News \| Special Announcement \| THE PEOPLE SPEAK COLLEGE TOUR Starting on Thursday, November 5 at Boston University, Howard Zinn and producers and cast from THE PEOPLE SPEAK are embarking on a national college tour for Howard's forthcoming documentary feature film THE PEOPLE SPEAK. All events are FREE! To reserve a seat in advance (highly recommended) and for more info visit: http://www.history.com/thepeoplespeakcollegetour http://www.facebook.com/HowardZinn ( Coming soon to a campus near you! ) And check out The People Speak -- airing on History on December 13, 2009 -- the documentary inspired by Voices of a People's History of the United States and produced by Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Chris Moore, Anthony Arnove and Howard Zinn, and featuring Damon, Brolin, Rosario Dawson, Bob Dylan, Morgan Freeman, John Legend, Viggo Mortensen, Bruce Springsteen, Marisa Tomei, and Kerry Washington. See a sneak peek preview at http://www.thepeoplespeak.com ( Read more... ) Tags: citizen's rights and responsibilities, education, ethics, history, howard zinn (Leave a comment)

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